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  Can local institutions reduce poverty?: rural decentralization in Burkina Faso

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper argues that in Burkina Faso certain high-performing local institutions contribute to equitable economic development. They link reduced levels of poverty and inequality to a high degree of internal village organization.
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  Local institutions, poverty and household welfare in Bolivia

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper seeks to establish the extent to which historical factors contribute toward formal governmental systems and their insertion into the overall social organizational context, in terms of basic service provision and poverty reduction.
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  Limits of conditionality in poverty reduction programs

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2002

  The paper focuses on how to optimally design conditionality for poverty reduction when the objectives of the donor and those of the recipient are not perfectly aligned.The authors found 3 important resultsconditionality entails distortions and is responsible for an inefficient allocation of resourcesaid policies should be tailored according to the recipient government's preferences
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  Strengthening the knowledge and information systems of the urban poor (KIS)

  Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2002

  Poor men and women living in urban informal settlements do need knowledge and information to cope with risks and improve their livelihoods, but they sometimes find it hard to access. How do the urban poor obtain information and develop knowledge? Do they get what they require and is it appropriate?
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  The impact of regulation on the livelihoods of the poor

  Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2001

  The key concept of the Global Strategy for Shelter, and its successor the Habitat Agenda, is that of enabling; of governments' stepping back from housing production and measures to control the price of outputs and, instead, working to enable the current and potential suppliers of housing to do what they do best.
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  Getting the lion's share from tourism: private sector-community partnerships in Namibia.

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001

  In a number of developing countries, partnerships between the private sector and local communities are becoming more and more common, especially as communities are increasingly gaining rights to wildlife and other valuable tourism assets on their land through national policy changes on land tenure.
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  The tourism industry and poverty reduction: a business primer

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  Millions of poor people live in places that are also tourism destinations. But many tourism companies claim that poverty reduction is not their business.
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  Participation, policy and urban poverty

  CARE International, 2001

  This report summarises the findings of research to assess whether poor city residents have benefited from Commitment C of the Habitat Agenda, concerning participation and enablement.The barriers to participation of city dwellers found included:the lack of opportunity to engage in any aspect of city governmenta lack of timethe perception of city dwellers that government services
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  Human Development Report 2002: deepening democracy in a fragmented world

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2002

  The Report urges a new emphasis on “deepening democracy” at the local, national and international level.
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  Financing for development: finding the money to eliminate world poverty

  International Development Committee, UK, 2002

  UK government commitee finds that meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will require an additional US$50 billion in aid per year, a doubling of current aid levels.

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